I’m done with the self mas­tur­ba­to­ry of social media, with the likes of Face­book, the loves of Insta­gram and the rest of that ilk. It’s a mas­sive dis­trac­tion of FOMO, pop­u­lar­i­ty con­tests and ego stroking. These plat­forms active­ly encour­age such behav­iour in order to keep users with­in their sites and apps for longer to increase adver­tis­ing rev­enues and extract more data out of each individual.

Split­board­ing tour ear­ly April 2018. This is at the top of Ull­stin­den in Trom­sø, Nor­way. This is where I stopped to have lunch in the clouds. It’s about a 800 meter drop on the oth­er side of that marker.

Whoa! Notion has just released ver­sion 2.1 which has final­ly swayed me to switch. Reminders, inline dates, drop­ping the price of the per­son­al plan ($4 month) AND a Android app – I use iOS – but still this is great. I’ll have to do a big­ger write up on what Notion is and how I use it – at some point in the future – but for now I’ll use their strap-line

The all-in-one work­space for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

‘The expec­ta­tion of pick­up was what made phones a syn­chro­nous medi­um.’ Ever stopped to think about why we feel oblig­ed to pick up the phone when it rings? Well, that’s chang­ing any­way. Phone cul­ture is dying, large­ly thanks to new tech and unso­licit­ed mar­ket­ing calls.

I’ve used var­i­ous plat­forms over the past 4 years for email, ever since break­ing up with Gmail and Google. Becom­ing more seri­ous about how I com­mu­ni­cate with clients, pre­sent­ing a pro­fes­sion­al image and not hav­ing my data mined for var­i­ous pur­pos­es, I decid­ed it was high time to do some seri­ous research into find­ing a suit­able replacement.

Writ­ing & Research

Instead of keep­ing a tra­di­tion­al blog, this jour­nal serves as a home for my writ­ing, thoughts and research. For updates you can fol­low along on my Micro.blog or twit­ter. Also, feel free to leave com­ments on the arti­cles or email me direct­ly.